Nobody's Listening!

The show continues to be one of the most engaging and intense Star Wars pieces of media and tv shows as a whole without any explosions, and lightsaber or baster action scenes.

Meero steals the show once again and all of her scenes, especially Bix's interrogation, are just brilliant.

They're doing too good of a job of showing The Empire is not just a cartoonishly evil bad guy with troopers that can't aim, and they actually manage to make them menacing and meticulous and a bad guy that gets the job done.

Showing the inner workings of ISB and how they run things is just the cherry on top.

The prison scenes are just as brilliant and Andy Serkis has a nice little character arc and development in this episode and the writing and editing of these scenes are just great.

Andor is slowly planning his escape but they run into some problems in this episode. The whole prison arc is just bigger and more well-written than I thought it was going to be and it's just a joy to watch.

We get some great scenes with Mon too and the actress is just great, in fact, every actor has been great since episode one. There is another surprising reveal in the Mon Mothma plotline and it makes the whole story more complex. The plot is thickening in a great way.

All in all, I thought this was another great episode from this Star Wars show that I'm actually enjoying watching, which it has been a long time since the last time that happened.

With the brilliant writing team and just everyone behind this show, I'm confident they're gonna do a great job with the rest of the season and hopefully the next season too. Can't wait for the next week's episode.

As a collective "Star Wars" fanbase, we really have to thank this show for finally giving everyone something that they can just watch and enjoy. Every reaction for this show ranges somewhere between the "good" to "great," and it has given a lot of people that sense of a galaxy in peril that they've been missing ever since the original films came out. This is definitely a huge homage to the original films in its tone, but it's also a show that is so great on its own. This episode was another great addition to that, building tension at every possible moment to the finale.

The previous episode was definitely an homage to "THX 1138" in terms of its look and overall tone. This entire arc seems like it's going back to that style, and it feels great to see a show like this take time to come up with a great arc, while still paying their respects to the guy who made it all possible. And this episode may have been the least "Star Wars" of the show, because it puts the rebellion storyline to the side to just focus on building tension and preparing the audience for the big finale of the next episode. Only the beginning is really dedicated to get some breakthroughs in Bix's storyline, but for the rest, it mostly focused on Cassian in the prison, or the ISB trying to hunt him down. It's a great juxtaposition that these two storylines are pitted against each other, but they actually have Cassian under their watch. It all goes to show that if the Empire would just look for their problems, they'd know that they didn't have to look that far to find him. There's also a ruthlessness to this episode and the Empire actually comes off as incredibly scary, which is something that has honestly never been the case before. Whether its their means of torture, or just the fact that they're willing to destroy an entire wing because they don't do as they're told. This is a different corner of the universe, and it's one that we can only hope to see much more of.

"Nobody's Listening!" is full of tension and worldbuilding, preparing the audience for something that's going to be heartbreaking coming up next week. It's still clear on its focus of setting up the rebellion, but taking a little break from that and focusing on the ruthlessness of the Empire, only sets up the threat to greater heights.

Man I love this show, it's a huge step up by Disney for Star Wars. It makes Marvel and Pixar look meek with the recent releases they've made.

The quality of this show is A grade, where everything is on point; the acting, the production and sets, and my personal favourite, the writing.

There's not one filler episode and neither is this one. Gilroy is doing a masterclass on how to keep multiple stories retain a heartbeat whilst keeping it interesting, intriguing and makes you look forward to the next episode immediately. As usual, Diego and Serkis are absolutely brilliant and as the series has proven thus far, every 3 or 4 episodes is a biggie so can't wait for next week.

Awesome episode.

Dedra Meera character is great. The actress who plays her has a great twitch smile when pleased with her evil doings.

Getting to know the Empire as much as the rebels has been a very rewarding approach.

Along with the wealthy contributors among the complacent, the working class complacent too busy to see what's happening in front of them, and the 'I'm just doing my job' cogs of the Empire, this is much closer to the obvious comparison to real-world societies of the past.

The dangerously mentally ill fellow with Norman Bates vibes is a creepily nice touch.

The only thing that bugs me is the same reason this show works so well: lack of droids. Their slave existence was an underlying theme never played out in this universe. But as Andor said, people are cheaper and easier to replace.

This show is killing it.

Great writing: the.tension continues grow with each instalment! Every moment is telling. Each event cascading in consequence.

The performances are superb. A dark foreboding score that hits the mark. The costumes and sets are lush. They and the cinematography are painstakingly true ti earliest (ie finest) Star Wars traditions.

And the direction is ... restrained but relentlessly taught. No there's not much humour.

I know people are saying "this isn't a Star Wars story" but it so very much is. No it's not a Jedi story. It's not even a Jedi adjacent story. And it is SO much the better for it.

This is a serious show about the desperate courage of real people trying to get out from under the heel of an authoritarian government. It is mandatory viewing.

Between this and Netflix's utterly brilliant All Quiet on the Western Front we have two powerful and timely studies into the horrors of conflict and oppression.